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Ask HN: Which developer tool got worse as it became popular?

1•mukundzha6•20m ago
What tool do you think was better before it became widely used?

What changed? More features, more complexity, worse defaults, enterprise stuff, etc.

And did you switch to something else, or just keep using it?

Interested in specific examples rather than “everything was better before.”

Comments

blinkbat•4m ago
I remember github being faster in the past.
toomuchtodo•3m ago
Postman
thepasch•2m ago
Claude Code

VSCode in Terminal

https://github.com/vitali87/croft
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Uber fined $966M in NL for automating driver suspensions

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Meta, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn now face an Australian news law

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Defending Against an Active Threat to Siemens S7 Series PLCs

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Generalist – GEN-1.5: Embodied Foundation Models Are One-Shot Learners

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1•RebelPotato•1m ago•0 comments

Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3]

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I Became the Scapegoat in the Jason Arday Affair

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Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

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Why Robot Brains Will Live in the Cloud

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1•erzhrn•9m ago•0 comments

UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed on students' math skills

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/uc-berkeley-professor-ai
2•pseudolus•14m ago•0 comments

FirstDrop

https://nuoy.app/firstdrop
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Building a scalable agent sandbox around legacy enterprise systems

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Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand

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Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark

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Syndicate OS – self-hosted multi-agent federation (Hermes and OpenClaw minions)

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Lessons learned from usage-based pricing for our customers

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What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x

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Everyday Technology Is Becoming a Black Box. Is There a Cost?

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1•pseudolus•19m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Which developer tool got worse as it became popular?

1•mukundzha6•20m ago•3 comments

The Babel fish that we have been waiting for

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Zoomers don't know what Usenet is

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Cannabis addiction climbs fast while alcohol use disorder slowly declines

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1•pseudolus•21m ago•1 comments

Infinity and the Mind (2019)

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Convite

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Good Results when training Qwen 3 4B to learn a new domain

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Ancient South American families built waterways by themselves

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Show HN: Diffview, a fast Git diff viewer written in Rust

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